SEOUL, South Korea — Another day, another defiant weapons test from North Korea.
A day after launching two ballistic missiles from a base near the border with archrival South Korea, Pyongyang on Monday fired a barrage of artillery shells into waters near its eastern sea border with the South. Officials in Seoul have confirmed nearly 100 missile, rocket and artillery tests by North Korea this year, an output seen as significantly higher than past years.

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of — North Korea warned Saturday that its military is ready to attack Seoul’s presidential palace unless South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologizes for “treason” and publicly executes officials responsible for what Pyongyang says are plans to attack its leadership.

War on the Korean Peninsula: Why no one wants to go there again, despite the rhetoric TOKYO (AP) — As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, one thing remains certain: All sides have good reason to avoid an all-out war. The last one, six decades ago, killed an estimated 4 million people.

SEOUL, South Korea — Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters crashed en masse Wednesday, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of a cyberattack by North Korea.
Screens went blank at 2 p.m., with reports of skulls popping up on some computer screens, the state-run Korea Information Security Agency said – a strong indication that hackers planted a malicious code in South Korean systems. Some computers came back online more than 2 1/2 hours later.

SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Vietnam has begun dredging work on a disputed reef in the South China Sea, satellite imagery shows, the latest move by the Communist state to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway.

Okay, it's not technically a missile, but the munition — an artillery projectile — certainly looks like a missile. Raytheon's assertion that "Analyses have shown that on average it takes at least 10 conventional munitions to accomplish what one Excalibur can" totally smacks of Tony Stark's speech in the opening scene of Iron Man.